Every 5+ years on the average since the creation of the privately owned Federal Reserve System, the .000001%—that is, those who control the Anglo-Euro-American banking cartel and its corporations—choke the money supply, via a recession or depression, to steal any assets that labor may have in its possession. The infamous financier, Andrew Mellon, put it this way: "During depressions, assets return to their rightful owners." In other words, those who control the money creation process see the medium of exchange as something they loan to us on a temporary basis to create the illusion that we have some form of ownership when, in fact, we do not.
“The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.” —Leo Tolstoy, What Shall We Do Then?, 1885
However, recessions or depressions can be a liability when you're trying to maintain another illusion—that the red party marketing brand represents the "majority" of voters—to facilitate naked fascism becoming the norm, as opposed to covert fascism, where the blue party marketing brand enacts the same results, but pretends to be doing the opposite.
So, to continue the destruction and depopulation of the middle class, which began in earnest in the '70's, the cartel's current domestic economic strategy involves two key fronts: the misreporting of economic statistics and the use of political distractions as a cover for economic warfare.
Misreporting economic statistics
On November 6, 2013, we posted an article entitled, "Hiding economic statistics is another weapon in the 1%'s war on the 99%." The upshot of this article was that in the then five years since the manufactured "Great Recession" of 2008, the money supply was still woefully smaller than what it was before the crash, and that real unemployment was still well over 20%. Let's take a look and see if any of this has changed.
Money supply, velocity of money, and unemployment
In 2013, the annual change in the money supply was increasing, but at a much slower rate than it decreased during the initial stages of the 2008 "recovery," meaning that the money supply was being replenished at a rate that would prolong the purposeful depression of the economy.
Since then, between 2013 and 2018, we find that the rate of growth of the money supply continued at the same depressed pace. This may lead one to believe that the money supply was being slowly replenished, but it becomes apparent, when one looks at the velocity of money, that the steep decline we saw in early 2008, followed by a slower decline continuing through 2013, continued into 2018, with an extremely small uptick in the past couple of months, which is indeterminate regarding any long-term trends.
What this means is that any increase in the money supply from 2008 to 2018 has not stimulated the economy, because it has been retained by those who have gathered it. An example of this is the Quantitative Easing (QE) that the Fed performed. The money did not go to the public, where it would have generated a multiplier effect and thereby stimulated the economy; it went to the too big to fail (TBTF) banks, to repair their losses (from speculating in sub-prime mortgages and other toxic assets) and to give them the liquidity to buy up collateralized assets at fire sale prices, which became available as a result of the unemployment, foreclosures, and bankruptcies which the same banks created via the manufactured crisis that began with the Lehman Brothers financial false flag.
Another indication that the effective money supply is still languishing at the same levels as 2013 is the real unemployment rate, which remains over 20%.
Indeed, poverty in the U.S. is at Great Depression era levels. It's estimated that 43% of Americans can’t pay for food and rent.
A new economic paradigm
As we noted, up until 2008, the cartel staged a recession on the average of every five plus years since it instituted the unconstitutional Federal Reserve Act in 1913. However, it is unlikely that we will see a continuation of this pattern, since the integration of the world economy has created a condition—via "economy of scale"—that allows for a permanent stratification of financial classes, with growth at the top and depression at the bottom.
"I hope we shall take warning from the example and crush in it's [sic] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws our country." —Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to George Logan, Nov. 12th, 1816.
The role of #fakenews
So, while the actual statistics show that the Great Recession of 2008 has continued into the present, this is not the story that the cartel has been promulgating via corporate mass and social media (#fakenews), with rosy pronouncements covering up the truth. Thus, creating a recession with one already in progress would be clumsy, in addition to being politically counterproductive.
Enter tariffs and the "unstable" POTUS
As noted in a previous post, the cartel has cleverly leveraged Trump's disruptive behavior to its advantage, allowing them to create scenarios where the POTUS seems to be making off-the-wall decisions that, in reality, are perfectly aligned with the cartel's objectives: power, profit, propaganda, and population reduction.
The script from which Trump does his inimitable ad lib act has him arguing that "... increased tariffs on goods imported from overseas are necessary for national security," and that such a strategy boosts American businesses as well as the economy.
Obviously, the tariffs are having the opposite effect:
Yet, at the same time, the conveniently "unstable" Trump is saving jobs in China. The New York Times, as the voice of the cartel masquerading as "liberal" media, tried to make political hay out of all this ...
How Trump’s Policy Decisions Undermine the Industries He Pledged to Help
... but this is mere PSYOPS.
If one substitutes "the Anglo-Euro-American banking cartel and its corporations" for "American," then the words being put into Trump's mouth regarding "boosting business" would actually be accurate; in other words, global capital benefits from destroying the labor market in America and moving jobs overseas, where labor is cheaper, particularly in China, which operates as the industrial slave state for the upper strata of the global economy. This is why the cartel, via their "xenophobic and racist" POTUS, is increasing its attempts to stem immigration, with Mexico being the biggest target—they do not want to increase the U.S. labor market. Of course, there is, as well, their policy of eugenics and racism.
Meanwhile, the Fed has announced an increase in interest rates, and plans two more this year, just to make sure that the cartel's aggressive "recession within a recession" strategy works. In doing so, Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chairman, said "the economy had strengthened significantly since the 2008 financial crisis and was approaching a “normal” level that could allow the Fed to soon step back and play less of a hands-on role in encouraging economic activity." As the statistics show, only in the world of corporate controlled mass and social media (#fakenews) could anyone seriously describe the U.S. economy in this way and get away with it. The New York Times conjured this priceless gem, letting the Fed off the hook: "There Isn’t Much the Fed Can Do to Ease the Pain of a Trade War."
The puppets at the Supreme Court are on board with this as well, doing their best to destroy the unions.
Thus, by instituting tariffs and destroying the labor market and jobs based in the U.S., the cartel's profits increase and Trump feeds his red party marketing brand ditto heads the requisite red-meat key words upon which they thrive ("America First!," "Make America Great Again!," "job creation," et cetera.), while he takes the heat for the resultant destructive actions and laughs all the way to bank. Meanwhile, the blue party marketing brand ditto heads invest their time and hopes in the #fakenews scandals invented by so-called "intelligence agencies" that the cartel uses for distraction purposes, much like the birther and race issues surrounding Obama.
During the Gilded Age, when the Robber Barons were more forthcoming, they bared their strategy for all to see:
“We must keep the people busy with political antagonisms. We’ll therefore speed up the question of (fill in the blank) within the Democratic Party; and we’ll put the spotlight on (fill in the blank) [for] the Republican Party. By dividing the electorate in this way, we’ll be able to have them spend their energies at struggling amongst themselves on questions that, for us, have no importance whatsoever.” —US Bankers magazine, 1892 (Sarah E. Van De Vort Emery, Imperialism in America: Its Rise and Progress, Emery & Emery, 1893, pp. 71-72, as quoted in the Chicago Daily Press)
As the water in the proverbial pot approaches a boil, some of the captive frogs are beginning to notice. Hopefully, their leap in consciousness will come in time to alter the .000001%'s plans.
[We are pleased to announce that our book, 7 Steps to Global Economic and Spiritual Transformation, is now available online at Amazon and at Barnes and Noble. The foregoing article is based on the precepts of our book. ]
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